Did you know that Claremore had a female physician in the early days? Her name was Dr. Caroline Louise Rolph Bassmann. Born March 7, 1869, in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, she became a doctor and a Sunday school teacher at the M.E. Church of Claremore. When she arrived in town, the Claremore Messenger printed her "Professional Card" in its July 1904 paper when it reported, "Dr. Bassmann is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical School of Chicago and has been engaged in the practice of her profession seven years. She also did special work for a year in the Women's and Children's Hospital in Chicago in order to fit herself specially for the treatment of women's and children's diseases, and comes here highly recommended as a successful practitioner."
Ten months later, this glowing report made by the Claremore Progress tells of the good doctor's work in the community. "Among the physicians of Claremore who have a successful practice and the exercise of those genuine professional principles which give them a strong place with our people, Dr. Bassmann has in her residence here during the past year, risen to a very high place. As a lady of the most refined tastes and a pleasant personality, which at once attracts friends, she occupies a most enviable position in our social as well as professional life. She is a graduate of the Woman's Medical department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, one of the best western schools, was in active practice in Nebraska for seven years before locating here and is thoroughly experienced and well equipped for the success with which she has met since locating here. While a specialty is made of diseases of women and children, every branch of the practice is carefully attended to and her patients, who are numbered among our best people, have that full confidence in her ability, which is so essential to the best results. Dr. Bassmann's office at her residence is provided with all equipment necessary for her growing practice."
In June 1907, Dr. Bassmann and stepdaughter, Miss Beulah, returned to Omaha, for an undisclosed reason (perhaps to deliver her first born son), for an extended stay, "going from there to their old home in Nebraska."[4] Eventually, they returned as Dr. Bassmann's name is once again found in the daily news of the local Claremore papers by May 1908. Judge and Dr. Bassmann had two sons, Willard Lyman. Bassmann (born October 28, 1907) and George Raymond Bassman (born in Claremore, October 11, 1909).
During her years in Claremore, Dr. Bassmann became a member of the Quest Club, a literary society that read and discussed various intellectual topics of interest and current events of the day. At one Quest Club meeting Dr. Bassman prepared and read a paper titled, "The Bible: What it is and How to Use it… which proved to be one of the best and most instructive papers ever read before the club." At another Quest Club meeting she, interestingly enough, presented the negative argument for the afternoon debate titled "Resolve, Universal Suffrage Will Provide a Benefit to Women."[7] Yet, at a Methodist Brotherhood meeting in which the ladies were invited to take part, she took the side of the affirmative when both the men and the women debated, "Resolve, That Women Should Have Equal Rights of Suffrage." The doctor's husband, W.H. Bassmann was, on this occasion, the Presiding Officer at that meeting.
An active member of the Red Cross, Dr. Bassmann volunteered to share the skill of making surgical dressings/bandages needed for the hospitals "on the front" during the war effort. And also in 1918, she was appointed by Mayor H.H. Brown, and approved by the City Council, to receive a five-year term as a member of the city's Welfare Board. This board addressed and brought to the attention of the council issues of public safety, poverty, delinquency, crime, disease, vagrancy and "other social problems in the community in those matters which concern the public health and welfare" of Claremore citizens. Dr. Bassmann was a charter member of the Claremore Business Woman's Club organized October 21, 1920, and she cared for the education of others becoming president of the Patron-Teacher's Association when it was organized in 1921.
Dr. Bassmann often shared her gift for hospitality when, on occasion, she entertained the ladies of the First M.E. Church in her home on Fifth street. She entertained her Sunday School class of boys…with an evening party honoring two students from her Sunday School class who were moving out of town, Robert Pidd and Raymond Perkins. Dr. Bassmann and her husband, Judge Bassmann (William Henry Bassmann), gave a farewell celebration for Mrs. S.B. North, the pianist of the Methodist Church for 12 years, when Mrs. North left Claremore and moved to Marlow, Oklahoma.
After a long life of service to her community, Dr. Caroline Louise Rolph Bassmann entered heaven, September 29, 1939, at age 70, and is buried in Claremore's Woodlawn Cemetery.
By Christa Rice, Claremore History Explorer
Ten months later, this glowing report made by the Claremore Progress tells of the good doctor's work in the community. "Among the physicians of Claremore who have a successful practice and the exercise of those genuine professional principles which give them a strong place with our people, Dr. Bassmann has in her residence here during the past year, risen to a very high place. As a lady of the most refined tastes and a pleasant personality, which at once attracts friends, she occupies a most enviable position in our social as well as professional life. She is a graduate of the Woman's Medical department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, one of the best western schools, was in active practice in Nebraska for seven years before locating here and is thoroughly experienced and well equipped for the success with which she has met since locating here. While a specialty is made of diseases of women and children, every branch of the practice is carefully attended to and her patients, who are numbered among our best people, have that full confidence in her ability, which is so essential to the best results. Dr. Bassmann's office at her residence is provided with all equipment necessary for her growing practice."
In June 1907, Dr. Bassmann and stepdaughter, Miss Beulah, returned to Omaha, for an undisclosed reason (perhaps to deliver her first born son), for an extended stay, "going from there to their old home in Nebraska."[4] Eventually, they returned as Dr. Bassmann's name is once again found in the daily news of the local Claremore papers by May 1908. Judge and Dr. Bassmann had two sons, Willard Lyman. Bassmann (born October 28, 1907) and George Raymond Bassman (born in Claremore, October 11, 1909).
During her years in Claremore, Dr. Bassmann became a member of the Quest Club, a literary society that read and discussed various intellectual topics of interest and current events of the day. At one Quest Club meeting Dr. Bassman prepared and read a paper titled, "The Bible: What it is and How to Use it… which proved to be one of the best and most instructive papers ever read before the club." At another Quest Club meeting she, interestingly enough, presented the negative argument for the afternoon debate titled "Resolve, Universal Suffrage Will Provide a Benefit to Women."[7] Yet, at a Methodist Brotherhood meeting in which the ladies were invited to take part, she took the side of the affirmative when both the men and the women debated, "Resolve, That Women Should Have Equal Rights of Suffrage." The doctor's husband, W.H. Bassmann was, on this occasion, the Presiding Officer at that meeting.
An active member of the Red Cross, Dr. Bassmann volunteered to share the skill of making surgical dressings/bandages needed for the hospitals "on the front" during the war effort. And also in 1918, she was appointed by Mayor H.H. Brown, and approved by the City Council, to receive a five-year term as a member of the city's Welfare Board. This board addressed and brought to the attention of the council issues of public safety, poverty, delinquency, crime, disease, vagrancy and "other social problems in the community in those matters which concern the public health and welfare" of Claremore citizens. Dr. Bassmann was a charter member of the Claremore Business Woman's Club organized October 21, 1920, and she cared for the education of others becoming president of the Patron-Teacher's Association when it was organized in 1921.
Dr. Bassmann often shared her gift for hospitality when, on occasion, she entertained the ladies of the First M.E. Church in her home on Fifth street. She entertained her Sunday School class of boys…with an evening party honoring two students from her Sunday School class who were moving out of town, Robert Pidd and Raymond Perkins. Dr. Bassmann and her husband, Judge Bassmann (William Henry Bassmann), gave a farewell celebration for Mrs. S.B. North, the pianist of the Methodist Church for 12 years, when Mrs. North left Claremore and moved to Marlow, Oklahoma.
After a long life of service to her community, Dr. Caroline Louise Rolph Bassmann entered heaven, September 29, 1939, at age 70, and is buried in Claremore's Woodlawn Cemetery.
By Christa Rice, Claremore History Explorer
Did you know that Claremore had a female physician in the early days? Her name was Dr. Caroline Louise Rolph Bassmann. Born March 7, 1869, in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, she became a doctor and a Sunday school teacher at the M.E. Church of Claremore. When she arrived in town, the Claremore Messenger printed her "Professional Card" in its July 1904 paper when it reported, "Dr. Bassmann is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical School of Chicago and has been engaged in the practice of her profession seven years. She also did special work for a year in the Women's and Children's Hospital in Chicago in order to fit herself specially for the treatment of women's and children's diseases, and comes here highly recommended as a successful practitioner."
Ten months later, this glowing report made by the Claremore Progress tells of the good doctor's work in the community. "Among the physicians of Claremore who have a successful practice and the exercise of those genuine professional principles which give them a strong place with our people, Dr. Bassmann has in her residence here during the past year, risen to a very high place. As a lady of the most refined tastes and a pleasant personality, which at once attracts friends, she occupies a most enviable position in our social as well as professional life. She is a graduate of the Woman's Medical department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, one of the best western schools, was in active practice in Nebraska for seven years before locating here and is thoroughly experienced and well equipped for the success with which she has met since locating here. While a specialty is made of diseases of women and children, every branch of the practice is carefully attended to and her patients, who are numbered among our best people, have that full confidence in her ability, which is so essential to the best results. Dr. Bassmann's office at her residence is provided with all equipment necessary for her growing practice."
In June 1907, Dr. Bassmann and stepdaughter, Miss Beulah, returned to Omaha, for an undisclosed reason (perhaps to deliver her first born son), for an extended stay, "going from there to their old home in Nebraska."[4] Eventually, they returned as Dr. Bassmann's name is once again found in the daily news of the local Claremore papers by May 1908. Judge and Dr. Bassmann had two sons, Willard Lyman. Bassmann (born October 28, 1907) and George Raymond Bassman (born in Claremore, October 11, 1909).
During her years in Claremore, Dr. Bassmann became a member of the Quest Club, a literary society that read and discussed various intellectual topics of interest and current events of the day. At one Quest Club meeting Dr. Bassman prepared and read a paper titled, "The Bible: What it is and How to Use it… which proved to be one of the best and most instructive papers ever read before the club." At another Quest Club meeting she, interestingly enough, presented the negative argument for the afternoon debate titled "Resolve, Universal Suffrage Will Provide a Benefit to Women."[7] Yet, at a Methodist Brotherhood meeting in which the ladies were invited to take part, she took the side of the affirmative when both the men and the women debated, "Resolve, That Women Should Have Equal Rights of Suffrage." The doctor's husband, W.H. Bassmann was, on this occasion, the Presiding Officer at that meeting.
An active member of the Red Cross, Dr. Bassmann volunteered to share the skill of making surgical dressings/bandages needed for the hospitals "on the front" during the war effort. And also in 1918, she was appointed by Mayor H.H. Brown, and approved by the City Council, to receive a five-year term as a member of the city's Welfare Board. This board addressed and brought to the attention of the council issues of public safety, poverty, delinquency, crime, disease, vagrancy and "other social problems in the community in those matters which concern the public health and welfare" of Claremore citizens. Dr. Bassmann was a charter member of the Claremore Business Woman's Club organized October 21, 1920, and she cared for the education of others becoming president of the Patron-Teacher's Association when it was organized in 1921.
Dr. Bassmann often shared her gift for hospitality when, on occasion, she entertained the ladies of the First M.E. Church in her home on Fifth street. She entertained her Sunday School class of boys…with an evening party honoring two students from her Sunday School class who were moving out of town, Robert Pidd and Raymond Perkins. Dr. Bassmann and her husband, Judge Bassmann (William Henry Bassmann), gave a farewell celebration for Mrs. S.B. North, the pianist of the Methodist Church for 12 years, when Mrs. North left Claremore and moved to Marlow, Oklahoma.
After a long life of service to her community, Dr. Caroline Louise Rolph Bassmann entered heaven, September 29, 1939, at age 70, and is buried in Claremore's Woodlawn Cemetery.
By Christa Rice, Claremore History Explorer
Ten months later, this glowing report made by the Claremore Progress tells of the good doctor's work in the community. "Among the physicians of Claremore who have a successful practice and the exercise of those genuine professional principles which give them a strong place with our people, Dr. Bassmann has in her residence here during the past year, risen to a very high place. As a lady of the most refined tastes and a pleasant personality, which at once attracts friends, she occupies a most enviable position in our social as well as professional life. She is a graduate of the Woman's Medical department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, one of the best western schools, was in active practice in Nebraska for seven years before locating here and is thoroughly experienced and well equipped for the success with which she has met since locating here. While a specialty is made of diseases of women and children, every branch of the practice is carefully attended to and her patients, who are numbered among our best people, have that full confidence in her ability, which is so essential to the best results. Dr. Bassmann's office at her residence is provided with all equipment necessary for her growing practice."
In June 1907, Dr. Bassmann and stepdaughter, Miss Beulah, returned to Omaha, for an undisclosed reason (perhaps to deliver her first born son), for an extended stay, "going from there to their old home in Nebraska."[4] Eventually, they returned as Dr. Bassmann's name is once again found in the daily news of the local Claremore papers by May 1908. Judge and Dr. Bassmann had two sons, Willard Lyman. Bassmann (born October 28, 1907) and George Raymond Bassman (born in Claremore, October 11, 1909).
During her years in Claremore, Dr. Bassmann became a member of the Quest Club, a literary society that read and discussed various intellectual topics of interest and current events of the day. At one Quest Club meeting Dr. Bassman prepared and read a paper titled, "The Bible: What it is and How to Use it… which proved to be one of the best and most instructive papers ever read before the club." At another Quest Club meeting she, interestingly enough, presented the negative argument for the afternoon debate titled "Resolve, Universal Suffrage Will Provide a Benefit to Women."[7] Yet, at a Methodist Brotherhood meeting in which the ladies were invited to take part, she took the side of the affirmative when both the men and the women debated, "Resolve, That Women Should Have Equal Rights of Suffrage." The doctor's husband, W.H. Bassmann was, on this occasion, the Presiding Officer at that meeting.
An active member of the Red Cross, Dr. Bassmann volunteered to share the skill of making surgical dressings/bandages needed for the hospitals "on the front" during the war effort. And also in 1918, she was appointed by Mayor H.H. Brown, and approved by the City Council, to receive a five-year term as a member of the city's Welfare Board. This board addressed and brought to the attention of the council issues of public safety, poverty, delinquency, crime, disease, vagrancy and "other social problems in the community in those matters which concern the public health and welfare" of Claremore citizens. Dr. Bassmann was a charter member of the Claremore Business Woman's Club organized October 21, 1920, and she cared for the education of others becoming president of the Patron-Teacher's Association when it was organized in 1921.
Dr. Bassmann often shared her gift for hospitality when, on occasion, she entertained the ladies of the First M.E. Church in her home on Fifth street. She entertained her Sunday School class of boys…with an evening party honoring two students from her Sunday School class who were moving out of town, Robert Pidd and Raymond Perkins. Dr. Bassmann and her husband, Judge Bassmann (William Henry Bassmann), gave a farewell celebration for Mrs. S.B. North, the pianist of the Methodist Church for 12 years, when Mrs. North left Claremore and moved to Marlow, Oklahoma.
After a long life of service to her community, Dr. Caroline Louise Rolph Bassmann entered heaven, September 29, 1939, at age 70, and is buried in Claremore's Woodlawn Cemetery.
By Christa Rice, Claremore History Explorer
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